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Nanoparticle Efficacy in Leukemia Model Improved Using Designer Peptides
Daniel Heller | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | January 27, 2025Researchers headed by teams at the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have developed what they describe as a groundbreaking approach to using specially designed peptides as excipients to improve nanoparticle drug formulations. Preclinical tests showed that their method could significantly enhance the antitumor […]
New light-based technique could transform heart tissue repair
Shrike Zhang | Via News-Medical.Net | January 24, 2025Researchers from Mass General Brigham and collaborating institutions have developed a non-invasive approach to manipulate cardiac tissue activity by using light to stimulate an innovative ink incorporated into bioprinted tissue. Their goal is to develop a technique that can be used to repair the heart. Their findings in preclinical models, published in Science Advances, show the […]
Research Spotlight: Identifying New Treatments for Pediatric Brain Cancer
Rakesh Jain | Via Massachusetts General Hospital | January 22, 2025Rakesh Jain PhD, Director of the E.L. Steele Laboratories for Tumor Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital and A. Werk Cook Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School, is senior author of a new study in PNAS, Targeting EPHB2/ABL1 Restores Anti-Tumor Immunity in Preclinical Models of Ependymoma. How would you summarize your study for a […]
New error grid better tailored to assess CGM accuracy
David Klonoff | Via Healio | January 17, 2025A new error grid to assess the accuracy of glucose measurements could give continuous glucose monitor manufacturers and regulatory agencies such as the FDA a better understanding of how accurate their devices are. An international panel of 94 experts in glucose monitoring from all six continents unveiled the Diabetes Technology Society error grid in a […]
Cell-Based Therapy Improves Outcomes in Pig Model of Heart Attacks
Jianyi Zhang | Via HMP Global | January 17, 2025Injecting infarcted pig hearts with specially bioengineered cells significantly decreased the infarct area and improved heart function, showing possible clinical relevance In a large-animal model study, researchers have found that heart attack recovery is aided by injection of heart muscle cell spheroids derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells, or hiPSCs, that overexpress cyclin D2 […]
Research Reveals Osteoarthritis Risk in Postmenopausal Women
Fabrisia Ambrosio | Via Mirage News | January 16, 2025Osteoarthritis (OA) is a condition that disproportionally affects postmenopausal women, and the millions affected can attest to the pain, reduced mobility and diminished quality of life that comes from this disease. While the hormonal changes associated with menopause have long been known to accelerate the development and progression of OA, a deeper understanding of the […]
President Biden Honors Nearly 400 Federally Funded Early-Career Scientists
Eno Ebong | Via Biden White House Archives | January 14, 2025On January 14, 2025, President Biden awarded nearly 400 scientists and engineers the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their careers. Established by President Clinton in 1996, PECASE recognizes scientists and engineers who show exceptional potential for […]
President Biden Honors Nearly 400 Federally Funded Early-Career Scientists
Parisa Rashidi | Via Biden White House Archives | January 14, 2025On January 14, 2025, President Biden awarded nearly 400 scientists and engineers the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their careers. Established by President Clinton in 1996, PECASE recognizes scientists and engineers who show exceptional potential for […]
Helen Blau awarded the National Medal of Science
Helen Blau | Via Stanford University | January 12, 2025Often called “America’s Nobel Prize,” the National Medal of Science honors the country’s leading researchers. Stem cell biologist Helen Blau was recognized for her work on cellular plasticity and aging. Helen Blau, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology and director of the Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology, had an exciting start to 2025. On […]
National Medal of Science Awarded to Oncofertility Innovator, MSU Research Foundation Professor Teresa Woodruff
Teresa Woodruff | Via Michigan State University | January 6, 2025Teresa K. Woodruff joined an elite group of Americans who have received two national medals of honor when President Joe Biden announced the latest recipients of the National Medal of Science on Jan. 3. Arati Prabhakar, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, presented Woodruff with the medal at a ceremony […]
David R. Walt Receives National Medal of Technology and Innovation
David Walt | Via Business Wire | January 6, 2025Award represents nation’s highest honor for technological achievement Quanterix Corporation (NASDAQ: QTRX), a company fueling scientific discovery through ultrasensitive biomarker detection, today announced that David R. Walt, co-inventor of the Company’s Simoa technology has received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, bestowed by the President of the United States. Since it was first awarded […]
Stanford cardiologist, Paul Yock awarded National Medal of Tech and Innovation
Paul Yock | Via Beckers Hospital Review | January 6, 2025Interventional cardiologist, researcher and inventor Paul Yock, MD, has been awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation by President Joe Biden. The medal, first awarded in 1985, recognizes Americans who have utilized science and technology to “tackle challenging problems and deliver innovative solutions for Americans and for communities around the world,” according to a […]
Emery N. Brown, innovative neuroscientist, statistician and anesthesiologist, earns National Medal of Science
Emery Brown | Via MIT | January 3, 2025Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy bestows the nation’s highest scientific honor on Brown, fellow winners, at a White House ceremony. Emery N. Brown, Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT, has won the National Medical of […]
Paula Hammond awarded 2024 National Medal of Technology and Innovation
Paula Hammond | Via MIT | January 3, 2025Four MIT faculty members are among 23 world-class researchers who have been awarded the nation’s highest honors for scientists and innovators, the White House announced today. Angela Belcher and Emery Brown were each presented with the National Medal of Science at a ceremony this afternoon, and Paula Hammond ’84, PhD ’93, and Feng Zhang were […]
Steven Cramer Awarded NAE’s 2025 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education
Steven Cramer | Via National Academy of Engineering | January 3, 2025The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today that Georges Belfort and Steven M. Cramer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), have been named recipients of the 2025 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. The $500,000 annual prize, which recognizes new methods and concepts in education aimed at developing effective engineering leaders, […]
Georges Belfort Awarded NAE’s 2025 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education
Georges Belfort | Via National Academy of Engineering | January 3, 2025The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today that Georges Belfort and Steven M. Cramer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), have been named recipients of the 2025 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. The $500,000 annual prize, which recognizes new methods and concepts in education aimed at developing effective engineering leaders, […]
A ‘ticking time bomb’ for liver cancer
Ludmil Alexandrov | Via Science Daily | January 2, 2025Scientists at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have shed new light on the development of liver cancer, the sixth most frequently diagnosed cancer and fourth leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. The study, published in Nature, reveals a complex interplay between cellular metabolism and DNA damage that drives the progression of fatty […]
Predicting Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Immunotherapy Outcomes
Aleksander Popel | Via Oncology Times | December 31, 2024A team of computational scientists and cancer specialists from the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have developed a mathematical model to improve the performance of predictive biomarkers for PD-1 blockade in patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). The project builds on previous research investigating whether […]
Tumbling stem cells? Watch how movement plays a part in their fate
Fan Yang | Via Stanford University | December 19, 2024Manish Ayushman, a PhD student in bioengineering, has watched more than a thousand hours of microscopic footage of stem cells in the lab. At first, the cells seemed like they weren’t doing much of anything. But when Ayushman looked a little more closely, he noticed they were moving ever so slightly – turning and pulsing […]
Brain cells remain healthy after a month on the International Space Station, but mature faster than brain cells on Earth
Jeanne Loring | Via Science Daily | December 17, 2024Microgravity is known to alter the muscles, bones, the immune system and cognition, but little is known about its specific impact on the brain. To discover how brain cells respond to microgravity, Scripps Research scientists, in collaboration with the New York Stem Cell Foundation, sent tiny clumps of stem-cell derived brain cells called “organoids” to […]